r/Design
Founded January 2008 · Public — anyone can post
Design
Members
4,463,648
4.5M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.1%
+3.9K members · ≈27d
Published rules
8
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Sep 5 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/Design
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Question | 31% | 233 |
| Discussion | 30% | 2,468 |
| Show & tell | 29% | 2,365 |
| Rant | 6% | 4,936 |
| News / link | 1% | 3,844 |
| How-to | 1% | 3,635 |
| Tool comparison | 1% | 2,955 |
Based on 70 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 198
- Top 10% score
- 6,210
- Text posts
- 17%
- Got no replies
- 10%
- Busiest windows
- Tue 15:00 UTC, Mon 15:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned. Post flair is required.
- No promotional/commercial activities.: This community is not for self-promotion - social media pushing, surveys, or advertising. It’s also not for job-searching or recruitment: please use r/designjobs, r/forhire, r/jobs, or r/picrequests instead. You also cannot promote your own products, services, brand, or shop - including your design services.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Humorous and witty observations
- — Specific and actionable feedback, especially for design critiques
- — First-hand experience or professional insight
- — Detailed lists of resources or alternatives
- — Engagement with other comments, building on discussions
What r/Design's rules say about promotion
1 of 8 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No promotional/commercial activities.
rule 1 of 8
This community is not for self-promotion - social media pushing, surveys, or advertising. It’s also not for job-searching or recruitment: please use r/designjobs, r/forhire, r/jobs, or r/picrequests instead. You also cannot promote your own products, services, brand, or shop - including your design services.
The other 7
- If posting someone else's work, credit them appropriately.
- All shared work must have a comment for context.
- No basic/repeated questions.
- This is not a “homework” forum.
- No off-topic/non-civil discussion.
- No memes, AI farming and low-quality posts
- Is it suitable for this sub?
Read from r/Design’s published rules on Sep 5. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
Similar by content
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See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/Design — frequently asked
How many members does r/Design have?
r/Design has 4,463,648 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 2. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/Design growing?
Over the last ≈27 days r/Design changed by +0.1% — a gain of 3.9K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/Design?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/Design yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/Design created?
r/Design was founded in January 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/Design?
r/Design publishes 8 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “No promotional/commercial activities.”, says: This community is not for self-promotion - social media pushing, surveys, or advertising. It’s also not for job-searching or recruitment: please use r/designjobs, r/forhire, r/jobs, or r/picrequests instead. You also… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/Design for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Design into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/Design's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Design's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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